Said Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/

Structural and design-based analysis of hybrid artefacts/digital technologies for educational contexts (learning, teaching): handbook digital media and methods
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36629-2_37-1

It was an honor to organize this panel on Managing Threats to Researchers, for the recent Cambridge #Disinformation Summit. Thanks to my esteemed colleagues @alicetiara @mutalenkonde & @juliaebner for contributing to this insightful dialogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9lhTm-7f0 #propaganda #commodon #polcomm

What is scandalous today and what dynamics can be unleashed online to pull users into a #scandal? In this new article, we analyzed a feud between Andrew #Tate and Greta #Thunberg as a case of "self-scandalization" in which outraged #audiences affectively contribute to cross-platform attention for polarizing figures. This is the first publication from our project "EXPOSING: The Public Value of Socio-Mediated Scandals in the Digital Age". https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13675494251329722
#Commodon #mediastudies

U.S. media history is pretty straightforward, honestly.

#mediaStudies #commodon @communicationscholars

Posting for no particular reason.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-news-capturing-democracy-9780197768488?lang=en&cc=us

#commodon @communicationscholars

Yesterday, the NEH posted new FAQs about how compliance with executive orders may impact funding for research and teaching. See diff by clicking "Text Changes" at the top of the page: https://visualping.io/diff/764625674?disableId=zy1p7IiHb0Ofklp

️ Today is the deadline for submitting chapter abstracts for the book proposal "Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture".

Follow the link for more information and submit a short 200 word abstract.
https://affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/publications/
#Commodon #mediastudies

Come to Lisbon and let's talk about affect, emotion and media Submit your abstract until 28. February to contribute with your research! https://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/call-for-abstracts-2025-ecrea-workshop-of-the-temporary-working-group-affect-emotion-media/

Of the many directions one's thoughts could take in listening to this, I'm thinking most of Andrew McStay's book, "Emotional AI." Quick thread… 1/8

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-relationship.html

cc @communicationscholars #genAI #commodon #mediaStudies

New publication!

Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti, @Bruna, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & Kateryna Maikovska

50 open-access copies are available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V9SRJQFI5SV5ZNVKZJHZ/full?target=10.1080/1369118X.2025.2470229

This study is particularly relevant in light of the current wave of traditionalist radicalism.
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

Publication alert! Actually it's a review, of Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution by Eleanor Patterson, in Technology and Culture

Good book for folks in media studies, fan studies, distribution studies, also Star Trek & wrestling fans?

@commodon

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/951070

I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through. If you're having a particularly boring Saturday night, here's the first post (which gives a big nod to @ftripodi ).

https://unevenly-distributed.ghost.io/distribution-and-procedural-rhetoric/

@academicchatter @communicationscholars

Call for Chapter Abstracts for the book proposal "Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture" in the ECREA Open Access Book Series. Send us your 200-word abstract by 03 March. More about theme and formalities here: https://affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/publications/

For anyone bringing #AI into their teaching this term, Tom Haigh just shared the syllabus for a new course titled "A Short History of Artificial Intelligence" (based on his forthcoming book). The supplemental readings offer a nice slice through the literature, from subject area experts to popular perspectives.

https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/TUW